This Cooperative Extension Service publication from Mississippi State University is a teacher's guide for a private pesticide applicator certification training program. This guide is designed for use by county extension agents. Contents include: (1) a suggested training schedule; (2) stepwise instructions for implementation of the private…

The first part of this bibliography cites selected books concerning the use of drama in teaching English as a foreign language. The second part cites plays designed for various learning levels, with price and addresses included. All entries are British publications. (CLK)

This book is a guide to the making of films. It covers preparation (scripting, storyboarding, budgeting, casting, and crew selection), filming (directing, camera operating, and sound recording), and postproduction (editing, sound dubbing, laboratory processing, and trial screening). Distribution of films is discussed in detail. Possible careers in…

"Options in Education" is a radio news program which focuses on issues and developments in education. This transcript of the first show contains discussions of college enrollment, the controversy over standardized testing, hyperactivity in school children, the rash of teacher strikes, and how to become a professional golfer. Participants…

Seventh grade pupils dramatized a narrative taken from a school textbook. This is considered a valuable device for motivating and providing active experience in communicating. The steps in planning and performing the teaching unit are described. The cooperatively produced final script is appended. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

The author, a Boston television consumer news reporter, describes her work and shares with home economics teachers two video scripts she has used on news broadcasts. Students may produce these two presentations and then be encouraged to conduct their own investigations and report them through closed-circuit television. (AJ)

The goal of the video in the classroom video project at an elementary school was to increase student achievement by making learning come alive to students, have learners actively engaged in the process of learning through authentic learning experiences, and make that learning have meaning to their lives. Fifth grade students created group video…

Readers Theater is a presentation by two or more participants who read from scripts and interpret a literary work in such a way that the audience imaginatively sense characterization, setting, and action. Traditionally, the primary focus of readers theater is on an effective reading of the script, not on a dramatic presentation. The scripts in…

In this unit of work, the children will continue to learn about the features of playscripts, through reading and analyzing a play and writing a play based on a narrative. In the course of learning how to interpret and write stage directions, the children will apply their knowledge of adverbs. In the discrete work on vocabulary and spelling, the…

After more than a decade in print, "Readers Theatre for Beginning Readers" continues to outsell all comparable books on Readers Theatre. "More RTBR" capitalizes on both the popularity of "Readers Theatre for Beginning Readers" and the emphasis on fluency due to the recommendations of the National Reading Panel.…

This article discusses the acquisition of self-control using relaxation and guided imagery. These methods can be used in conjunction with other effective teaching tools to enable people who are deaf-blind to lead self-determined lives. An audiotape guided imagery script and a guided imagery script on index cards are described. (Contains…

Television programs undergo many revisions from original script to completed pilot. This study analyzed 21 programs which debuted in 1987 to determine whether there were significant changes in the portrayal of women during the production. The results showed little change in gender representation from the original script to the finished program and…

A survey of 200 colleges and universities was undertaken to determine to what extent a multicultural approach was used to prepare students to write screenplays for multicultural audiences. Content of scriptwriting courses was also analyzed and instructor attitudes assessed. Although teachers agreed stereotyping was undesirable, few included the…

The Romanization of Yiddish in Hebraica cataloging is problematic; inconsistencies are found in machine-readable catalog (MARC) records of various bibliographic utilities. The article describes insufficiencies in the Library of Congress's Romanization table and disparate systems used in transliterating Yiddish dictionaries. Solutions may include…

University students in Taiwan evaluated seven prepared Taibun reading samples on six characteristic scales. Results reveal that Han character-only orthography received the highest rating, Han-Roman mixed received the second highest, and Roman-only received the lowest.(Author/VWL)